Gates/Jobs interview

I watched the D: All Things Digital Conference which had Steve Jobs and Bill Gates being interviewed. It was pretty amazing to watch them talk about their past and the awkward silent moments, and the supposed camaraderie between the two :). SJ is tangily quick-witted and BG is the ever-cool guy who answers ALL questions asked of him. Sometimes diplomatic, but mostly his answers appease the interviewers and the public, as in he says what people kind of expect to hear from a guy of his stature.
At one point, the question was what they could share about their relationship in the last couple of decades. Gates said that in an industry where people just come and go constantly, its nice to have someone who's been there the whole time, from the beginning and seen the trends, the ups and downs in the industry. Jobs had an excellent comment or rather quote for Bill Gates from a Beatles song "You and I have memories, longer than the road that stretches out ahead" which was just amazing.
One of the funniest moments was when Mossberg asked them about how Microsoft (established in 1975) had a role to play(engineering wise) in the development of the Mac(77 abouts). Bill Gates immediately started out by saying how MS rolled out BASIC for 31 grand and how he and Steve Wozniak(the guy who literally built the Mac) worked together.......Jobs cut him off at exactly this point and said "Wait let ME tell the story Bill" and talked about how Woz had already built his version of the BASIC which Jobs claims was a near perfect piece of software engineered entirely on paper (as opposed to without the help of assemblers apparently) EXCEPT for one thing...it didn't support floating point numbers. Woz just didn't do it inspite of Jobs begging him to do it and they eventually licensed it out from Microsoft.

And they got a standing ovation from the audience at the end of the interview.